The passage about newly-appointed
Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov sounds familiar, it might be because
it is. When the New York Times ran that lead, it helped Ol’ Misha
Two Percent join an elite club of Russian officials whose rise to
power were heralded as “encouragin signs” in the fight against organized
crime and crony capitalism. Just check out this selection of quotes
and headlines from the Moscow Times over the years